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This quick post will show you how to enable remote desktop service by editing registry settings on your Windows server. To enable RD open registry editor and navigate to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server

Double click on “fDenyTSConnections” and change Value data to 0 .

As you know, by default, group policy is being refreshed every 90 min + random time up to 30 min on domain members. And this refresh will occur only if group policy settings were modified.  In addition, every 960 min, security settings are being refreshed regardless of whether any changes to group policy were made. This post will show you how to modify time value for security settings refresh on you Windows server 2003 or Windows XP machine. To modify open registry editor and navigate to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\GPExtensions\{827D319E-6EAC-11D2-A4EA-00C04F79F83A}

Double click on “MaxNoGPOListChangesInterval”, change base to Decimal and enter your new Data value in minutes.

By default you have option to use Windows server 2008 for 60 days without activation . Do you know that you can reset this activation period 4 times per installation? In that case actual time of Windows server 2008 usage without activation increases to ~240 days. This post will show you how to reset it. To do it open command line and type:

slmgr -rearm

Got this error few hours ago after i installed “R1 backup” agent on my Windows server 2003 secondary domain controller. R1 backup agent required restart after install. After i restarted server all shares became inaccessable and i got tons of these errors in “System” log:

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Event Type:    Error
Event Source:    Srv
Event Category:    None
Event ID:    2011
Date:        5/14/2009
Time:        9:15:44 AM
User:        N/A
Computer:   Myserver
Description:
The server’s configuration parameter “irpstacksize” is too small for the server to use a local device.  Please increase the value of this parameter.

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After some googling i found that i have to modify registry to return Windows server into normal state. To repair this error open registry editor and navigate to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanServer\Parameters

In the parameters folder mouse right click and select New>DWORD value. Type IRPStackSize as value name. Note that value name is case-sensitive. Double click newly created value to edit. Change base to decimal, enter 18 as value and press OK.

Close registry editor and restart “Server” service to apply new settings.

Server is back now!

This post will show you how to change binding order of network adapters in your Windows server. Usually you have several network adapters that are connected to different networks. Also you may have a program that uses only first connection in the network connections list and you may want to make sure that this network connection is at the top of the list. Lets check how can we change priority in this list.

To change binding order of network adapters click Start>Run, type ncpa.cpl and press OK.

In “Network Connections” window select Advanced menu and click “Advanced Settings”.

In “Adapters and Bindings” tab under “Connections” area  you`ll see all your network connections. To change priority order select desired network connection and use arrows in the right to move up or down in priority list.